Nice shots guys!I went for a look outside just at the beginning of lunch (the windows in my office face a warehouse, not outside), and saw that the sun was completely free of clouds.So I ran outside, set up the tripod with the Soviet baseball-bat telescope, managed to get off a few decent shots on the 7D.I also tried the EOS3 with the iso50 Velvia, turns out the 3 doesn't like playing with lenses with no AF confirm chip (anyone else had this?), and had to turn it off/on again to reset the mirror (I'm not sure if the shutter was open the whole time, i guess i'l find out when I develop it)

Anyway, with the sun full on I was around 1/2000s at f/8-11 (so f/32-44), when bits of cloud went past they were down to even 1/4s.

Then I tried my Zeiss Sonnar 180/2.8 with only one 2x TC, when the cloud was over I was shooting wide open (360mm f/5.6) at 1/250s or so, in full sun it was 1/1000s at f/8 (really f/16).

So that ND400 + ND8 + B+W MRC UV combination didn't work too badly, hopefully I don't find too many dead pixels showing up in the next few days (and I can still see fine, mostly it was live-viewed). I'll see what I can do about processing them tonight when I get home from work...

If venus is in the top part of the moon, is that because all of you guys are northern-hemispheres? My Venus was in the bottom-left corner of the sun (in Aus)

Here's two of my shots, at 1pm, so fairly high in the sky, about an hour before it exited (possibly the only cloud-free time all day, although I reckon the ones with cloud look better).First is 250x2x2=1000mm, 1/1600s, possibly around f/8 (f/32).Second is 180x2=360mm, 1/250s, probably f/5.6ish (f/11).

One thing I learned today was that the Zeiss Sonnar 180/2.8 with the Soviet 2x TC makes for some very lovely purple-glowing images wide-open...

If venus is in the top part of the moon Sun, is that because all of you guys are northern-hemispheres?

Yeah, you can see on the sun-spot pattern how the Sun is oriented. It's great to see so many contributions from various part of the world! Some show the transit at sunrise, some at sunset, some upside down... When you see Venus like that, a tiny dot on the Sun, it is amazing to think that the planet is of about the same size as Earth. This could have been martians watching the Earth transiting the Sun.

It was pretty cloudy in NYC but I manage to get a few breaks in the cloud. I picked up an Orion solar filter that normally is used on telescopes but I found a size that fit over the top of my flare guard nicely.